If restrictions imposed, Qatar Airways may drop flights

Qatar Airways would consider cancelling flights to Auckland if New Zealand follows the United States in banning laptops and other large electronic devices on Middle East flights, its chief executive said on Monday. New Zealand is considering additional security checks on flights from some countries in the Middle East after similar measures were introduced last month by the United States, Britain and Australia. "Well we will have to then measure if it's really worth us still flying to New Zealand or not," Qatar Airways CEO Akbar al-Baker said in Dubai.